A List of Probably True Facts about Lists

In the early days of McSweeneys.net, God wrote an “Open Letter to Hedonistic Humans” post that was rejected until he re-submitted to the Lists section as “The Ten Commandments”

Martin Luther originally wrote 190 theses, but one of the sheets of paper blew away before he could nail it down

Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” is 86 points short of the record set by Wilt Chamberlin

The Bill of Rights has a ten-day grace period

Song Magazine posts a weekly Top-100 top billboards in the country

Santa’s first list was the shortest:

Cain: Nice Naughty

Abel

My “shit list” is: solid, liquid, and just gas

And finally, from personal experience:

If you tell Amazon your wish-list, it won’t come true. It will just constantly remind you that you should have taken a job at your father’s firm instead of deciding to tell jokes at a laundromat every Tuesday following a full moon for six apathetic comedians and one overly-critical washing machine repairman